Riven Tides — Patch Notes 1.26.0

Patch 1.26.0 brings Riven Tides to Arc Raiders: a new coastal map, a new floating ARC enemy, and a weapon-economy rebalance aimed at evening out weapon attrition between heavy-PvP and casual playstyles.

What’s New

Riven Tides Map

A new map exploring an abandoned shoreline — the Exodus port and the lost luxury of the Panorama Azzurro hotel.

Beachcombing Map Condition

A new minor map condition exclusive to Riven Tides. Search the beaches for buried treasure — bring the right tool for the job, and be ready for unexpected discoveries.

New Enemy: ARC Turbine

A new floating ARC machine patrols the skies of the Rust Belt. What it does, and how to counter it, is for you to find out.

Expedition Window

A new Expedition Window system, allowing for late departures.

New Items

• Powered Descender — Epic Gadget
• Crash Mat — Uncommon Throwable
• White Flag — Common Deployable
• Dockmaster’s Detector — Common Gadget

New Player Project

• Avian Alarm

Last Resort Event

Earn merits by collecting ship models and via XP across the different maps to earn rewards. The five ship models: Wind Sprite, Twilight Compass, Velocity, Sirena Dorata, and Leviathan’s Crown.

Trials Season 4

• The Solare Set
• The Rachetta Set
• New Augment: Tactical Mk.3 (Smoke)

Embark’s dev note: with another Tactical Augment added, they acknowledge some Augments — particularly the Combat Augments — are not performing as well in their roles as intended. A general balancing pass for Augments is in the works to buff underperformers, most especially the Combat Mk.3 (Flanking).

Balance Changes

Weapon Economy

The weapon economy had grown unbalanced: heavy-PvP players faced constant hard decisions about their weapons while casual players accumulated them. These changes challenge all players with weapon attrition and add new ways to combat it.

• Repair on upgrade — upgrading a weapon now repairs 25% of its max durability.
• Weapon drop & durability — weapon spawns around the map outskirts are reduced to raise the value of high-tier areas and locked rooms. The range of spawn durability is widened and the average outside locked rooms is lowered: average durability on spawned weapons reduced from 50 to 30. You might find a 15-durability weapon on the outskirts but still find ~60-durability weapons in locked rooms.

Durability loss on shot — high-tier weapons now last longer relative to low-tier ones:

• Common: +75% durability loss on shot
• Uncommon: +50%
• Rare: +35%
• Epic: −5%
• Legendary: −10%

Durability loss on being knocked out — to keep heavy PvP viable, durability loss on a knocked-out player’s weapons is halved, from −30% to −15%.

ARC

• Removed Comets from standard sessions in the Dam Battlegrounds.
• Heavily reduced Firefly presence in the Dam Battlegrounds.
• Reduced Comet presence in Buried City.

Embark’s dev note: Comets and Fireflies had raised the difficulty of beginner-oriented sessions too much; their presence was reduced in the most-affected sessions.

Gameplay

• Stella Montis — adjusted Exodus recyclables loot distribution to spread more evenly across containers.

Items

• Vaporizer Regulator — stack size increased from 1 to 3.
• Trigger ‘Nade — added a 1s delay after the throw action and a 1.3s delay after the trigger action before the next throw/trigger is allowed. You can no longer throw a new grenade while triggering a previous one, which reduces Trigger ‘Nade spam.
• Photoelectric Cloak — weight increased from 1 to 3 to match its rarity and cost; power use rate increased from 2.5/s to 10/s. The cloak had been over-performing on uptime; this adds more intentionality between uses.

Weapons

• Bettina — base damage increased from 14 to 16; base fire rate reduced from 285 to 235; per-shot dispersion reduced ~40% (slower bloom); dispersion recovery time improved ~30%; damage against ARC armor increased ~33%.
• Heavy Ammo — stack size increased from 40 to 60.

Bug Fixes

ARC

• Fixed aim assist not targeting leg joints and weak spots on the Bastion, Bombardier, Queen, and Matriarch.
• Fixed Vaporizer and ARC Surveyor patrols sometimes stopping until alerted.
• Fixed ARC not reacting to nearby breaching sounds.
• Fixed the Bastion being too accurate when switching targets mid-fire.
• Vaporizers added to more maps and conditions.

Animation

• Reworked the emote system so more emotes can play while running.

Audio

• Fixed a potential crash related to voice-over data.
• Fixed Trader voice lines at the start of a round triggering too frequently.
• Updated voice effects for cosmetic helmets.
• Fixed Store emote previews playing without their voice lines.
• Fixed footstep sounds sometimes stopping, and footstep/impact sounds playing the wrong surface audio (e.g. on bridges).
• Fixed objective and emote sounds persisting or doubling after reconnecting.
• Added a noise-suppression option for voice chat.
• Fixed voice chat breaking after opening the platform UI.

Cosmetics

• Fixed facial hair and face masks briefly glitching when changing faces or outfits.

Gameplay

• Fixed deployables being placeable inside extraction elevators before they opened.
• Fixed bullets spawning from an incorrect position when shooting while standing on rotating or movable objects.
• Fixed the “Death from Above” achievement being completable by standing on destroyed Rocketeer parts.
• Fixed players signed up for an Expedition not departing as scheduled; introduced a late-departure option.

Items

• Fixed binocular zoom levels not working.
• Fixed entering a zipline from above causing fall damage or pushing the player into the ground; fixed zipline anchors sometimes becoming invisible on placement.
• Fixed using Vita Spray to heal self and others at once increasing healing speed.

Maps

The Blue Gate

• Corrected floating and clipping props, restored wind damage and indoor/outdoor detection, resolved severe culling near the church, and fixed a stuck spot under an ARC wreck.
• Fixed supply call stations that could not be interacted with.

Buried City

• Fixed wall clip-through spots and roof flickering.
• Fixed supply call stations that could not be interacted with.
• Fixed shield damage being taken inside a building during Hurricane.
• Removed a problematic zipline in Old Town.

Spaceport

• Fixed stuck spots, improved collision near the Launch Towers, and resolved texture flickering.
• Fixed trench ladders that could launch players into the air.

Dam Battlegrounds

• Fixed a stuck spot near the cargo elevator, clipping trees, floating grass, misaligned cafeteria props, and incorrect concrete materials.
• Fixed several common stuck spots.

Movement

• Crouch movement speed is now capped to forced-walk speed when using items.
• Fixed heavy landing triggering at incorrect times.

Performance

• Further general performance improvements.
• Upgraded Intel XeSS to SDK version 3.0.0.
• Reduced rubber-banding when reaching the edge of the playable area.

Quests

• Fixed Seeker Grenade eliminations not counting toward the “Safe Passage” quest.

Social

• Added a popup when trying to use Voice Chat while in a PlayStation Party (they cannot be used at the same time).
• Report reasons are now shown flattened rather than in a dropdown, displaying all options more clearly.

Stability

• Fixed a server crash that could occur after a round ended, especially with disconnect/reconnect.
• Fixed issues around missing an Expedition departure that could make the game unresponsive on load or leave a character missing.
• Fixed a rare crash from certain items’ visual or audio effects, and a crash that could occur with certain outfits.

UI

• Enabled multi-select by default on Project screens; updated customization-panel scrollbar styling.
• Added challenge previews to the Practice Range.
• Gave crafting suggestions priority over recycle suggestions in Acquire Resources, and hid suggestions from locked Workshop stations.
• Redesigned the Expedition departure screen with a progress bar and catch-up information; the timer now shows across all steps, step previews are enabled, and the Late Departure notification shows only the reward and catch-up-reward counts.
• Fixed the Expedition screen failing to advance to the final stage after Step 5, which left the Departure view and Skill Points progress missing.
• Fixed quest tracking appearing in the map menu for players who had not started an Expedition.
• Fixed Projects-screen issues with controller navigation, future/past step previews, and an outdated Home-menu seasonal step.
• Added a Show/Hide Tooltip prompt to the Inventory Inspect tab.
• Fixed the Surge Coil tooltip showing the wrong range (now 10m, was 75m).
• All emote-wheel slots can now be rebound to any emote, with a reset-to-default button.
• Fixed the Raider Den weapon display not accounting for all stash slots.

VFX

• Bullet holes now follow any shot moving object.
• Reduced visual popping on character clothing when changing camera distance.
• Improved the ARC Surveyor beam effect that calls in the Assessor.

Known Issues

• Rare purchase failures in the customization screen — reopen the screen to fix.
• The Firefly may disappear after going idle and drop an incendiary grenade.
• Shredders float to the ceiling in some Hidden Bunker rooms.
• ARC may spawn inside the geometry on the Dam.
• Flying ARC may appear stuck in idle.
• The “Purchase Raider Tokens” page may appear in front of the inbox and profile pages.
• Player animations may break when interrupting a search of the Baron Husk.
• The “Off the Radar” quest cannot be completed on Riven Tides.
• Visual issue when looking at the Crash Mat in spectator mode.
• The Leaper can jump through the Turbine.
• The event skin preview incorrectly displays post-round event progress.
• The Rachetta outfit is missing some color details shown in promo material; this will be amended in a future patch.